Support state housing in Whangārei

Everyone in our community deserves to be housed. People should have agency over their housing, and it should be accessible and designed based on how people want to live. This would strengthen our communities, make life easier for whānau and provide the stability needed for a thriving city.

But successive governments have not done enough to make sure everyone in our community has a suitable housing. Now, the National-led Government plan to sell off state housing and make it less available to our communities. This will lead to more people living in unaffordable and unsuitable private rentals, in their cars and on the streets. It also means that land will be privatised that should otherwise be returned to hapū and iwi for Māori housing solutions.

In Whangārei we have: 
- 540 households on the Housing Register in Whangārei 

- 1,971 people experiencing Severe Housing Deprivation (homelessness) Census 2023 (this has likely grown since data was collected)
- And still, this National government has decided to cancel 26 developments, 322 homes that were in the pipeline, that would've housed whānau in need

We know from our own history and from overseas, that when governments play a bigger role in building and providing decent and suitable housing, we lay the foundation for thriving communities. We have built state housing at scale as a solution before, and we can do it again.

We are calling on MP for Whangārei, Shane Reti to advocate for the people of our city to ensure that everyone in Whangārei has a decent and stable home and stop the sell off.

Cancelled developments: